Excerpt:But the Trojans cried out like countless ewes in a rich man’s sheepfold, who wait to be milked and incessantly bleat as they hear their lambs crying: so did the Trojan war shouts arise with great uproar throughout the whole breadth of the army, because their soldiers had no common language among them, but the different tongues of people from many lands.

Authors pet theory is the out of africa hypothesis so he makes a point of shoving it down your throat and not actually saying why he objects to any of the other hypotheses out there. He also jumps around a lot, is rather vague and completely ignores all the uncomfortable stuff. I still don't know how we came to be the only humans on earth, but since I think there are several species of humans currently on the earth, he is never going to get that "answer" right.

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During times of universal deceit; telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act. - George Orwell.

Censorship reflects society's lack of confidence in itself. It is a hallmark of an authoritarian regime. - Potter StewartThe worst form of inequality is to try make unequal things equal. - Aristotle.Political power comes from physical occupation: not historical rights, not title deeds, not moral rights - only occupation. Those people who occupy a territory determine the nature of the society in that region. - Arthur Kemp.

mentioned in an earlier lecture, it is so much a part of the idiom of Greek epic. Kleos aphthiton is a phrase underlying fame. That is what the hero wants.

What can we do with kleos? As we mentioned, Hera-kles, Hera-kleos, the god or hero Hercules, has a name that means nothing other than "redounding to the praise of Hera." …

Sophocles 496-406 BCE, …Sophos-kleos, fame or famous for wisdom. In the 19th century, scholars reading Greek knew of kleos aphthiton, and they began to discover, as William Jones half a century before, the texts of the Sanskrit religion, belief, and social structure. The Rig Veda, the Bhagavad Gita, the great texts of the ancient subcontinent, India.

In these texts they found poems and a phrase, sravas aksitam, kleos aphthitin, sravas aksitam. Indo-Europeanists of great facility in the 19th century, would have recognized that the "k" sound corresponds to the "s." They would work through each correspondence, as with the centum and satem languages, to finally realize that kleos aphthitin and sravas aksitam are cognate phrases. They meant the same thing, and descended from the same root.

The sounds laws and correspondences between the Sanskrit and the Greek worked perfectly. They scanned poetically the same way. That is, they were a metrical phrase. This is the idea of a formula. Indo-European poetry is formulaic. We can see that in Homer, with such phrases as the wine-dark sea, cow-eyed Penelope, rosy-fingered dawn, or Odysseus of many wives (polytropus Odysseus), many tropes.

We see it in old English poetry, and its formula. We even see it in the surviving oral epics of the Serbo-Croatian peoples. So what we've discovered here was not simply a word or phrase, but a poetic, an idea of a poetics.

The study of Indo-European, as we've tried to support in the previous lectures, is a revelation. What we mean here, is that so much of our history of language has been veiled. We need to get behind the words, to see the origins.

I just finished a book titled The Betrayal of the American Dream by
Donald Bartlett and James Steele. It discusses the many ways in which
middle class Americans are losing their ability to achieve financial prosperity.
Some of the reasons for this include the super wealthy cheating on their
taxes, politicians who have voted to de-regulate industries such as trucking
and airlines with disastrous results, and multinational companies out sourcing
jobs to low wage countries. The book does a good job of tying the issues
together so that a reader can grasp the big picture regarding the perilous
state of the economy. I would highly recommend this book,

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One person with a belief is a social power equal to 99 who have only interests.- John Stuart Mill

Great, masterful races have been fighting races.
-Teddy Roosevelt

Q:How many anti-racists does it take to screw in a light bulb?
A: Ten. One to screw it in and nine to complain that the light is too white.

I am reading The Compass of Pleasure by David Linden. The author is
a neuroscientist and he discusses the physiological reaction in the brain
when it reacts to food, exercise , sex and other forms of stimulation.
It is a little heavy when it comes to technical jargon but worth reading for
a better understanding of the brain.

Really enjoyed this book. It is somewhat long bordering on 700 pages. It has a really good plot and background. I would consider it kinda of dark. It explores some occult themes. It is about a movie producer who does horror films. His films are banned in most places. They eventually come to life and the book becomes a film. I think people would call it metafiction.

The most recent book I finished was:

Under The Dome by Stephen King

Not a big fan of Stephen King at all but after watching the television series I decided to read the book.

The book was way better than the series and had few to none (maybe 1) characters that aren't white. The television show has been inflicted by diversity, the book is better. It explores gun control, morals, survival, police, corruption and much more. If you take out the aliens it would have been great, otherwise it is a good read either way if you are a fan of the show or enjoy apocalyptic fiction.